House and Senate negotiators announced they have a framework to negotiate the final details on a spending bill for a full year of government funding. House Appropriations Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, said in a statement that the framework would provide a path to passing what’s known as an …
Read More »Georgia’s highest court on Wednesday rejected an appeal from Republican groups of a lower court decision allowing early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. The Georgia Republican Party, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican National Committee …
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Washington — Ashton Carter, who served as the secretary of defense under former President Barack Obama, died Monday after suffering a heart attack, his family said in a statement. He was 68 years old. Carter served as the nation’s 25th defense secretary and held the role from early 2015 to …
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Washington — A federal judge on Thursday appointed U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie to serve as an independent arbiter, or special master, tasked with reviewing the documents seized by the FBI during its search at former President Donald Trump’s home in South Florida. Trump proposed Dearie for the role last …
Read More »Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who served during the Trump administration, offered vocal criticism of Trump’s handling of classified documents, saying it’s “unprecedented” for a former president to store such sensitive records at a “country club.” Barr, appearing on Fox News Friday, said he can’t think of a reason for …
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Washington — A “limited set” of material taken by the FBI in its search of former President Donald Trump’s South Florida residence may contain information covered by attorney-client privilege, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing Monday. Federal prosecutors told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in the filing that …
Read More »President Biden’s eldest granddaughter, Naomi Biden, will have her wedding ceremony at the White House, “much to the relief” of the Secret Service, she announced Thursday. “Not sure how best to update but was supposed to do so weeks ago…but we have finally figured out where the ceremony will be…and …
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Convicted leaker Reality Winner has asked President Biden for a pardon in a petition filed Wednesday. Winner was an Air Force veteran working as a contractor for the National Security Agency when she leaked a top-secret document to The Intercept in 2017 that outlined Russian interference in the run-up to …
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Washington — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CNN on Tuesday that she was wrong when she said last year that inflation only posed a small risk and wasn’t likely to be a problem. Yellen made the comments to Wolf Blitzer, after the host replayed clips of Yellen calling the risk of …
Read More »The Department of Homeland Security’s announcement of a “Disinformation Governance Board” to standardize the treatment of disinformation by the agencies it oversees has been met with an overwhelmingly negative response since it was first unveiled in April. “It’s an awful idea, and you ought to disband it,” Sen. Mitt Romney, …
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